Author: Ian Tyrrell
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469620804
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Frances Willard founded the Woman's Christian Temperance Union in 1884 to carry the message of women's emancipation throughout the world. Based in the United States, the WCTU rapidly became an international organization, with affiliates in forty-two countries. Ian Tyrrell tells the extraordinary story of how a handful of women sought to change the mores of the world -- not only by abolishing alcohol but also by promoting peace and attacking prostitution, poverty, and male control of democratic political structures. In describing the work of Mary Leavitt, Jessie Ackermann, and other temperance crusaders on the international scene, Tyrrell identifies the tensions generated by conflict between the WCTU's universalist agenda and its own version of an ideologically and religiously based form of cultural imperialism. The union embraced an international and occasionally ecumenical vision that included a critique of Western materialism and imperialism. But, at the same time, its mission inevitably promoted Anglo-American cultural practices and Protestant evangelical beliefs deemed morally superior by the WCTU. Tyrrell also considers, from a comparative perspective, the peculiar links between feminism, social reform, and evangelical religion in Anglo-American culture that made it so difficult for the WCTU to export its vision of a woman-centered mission to other cultures. Even in other Western states, forging links between feminism and religiously based temperance reform was made virtually impossible by religious, class, and cultural barriers. Thus, the WCTU ultimately failed in its efforts to achieve a sober and pure world, although its members significantly shaped the values of those countries in which it excercised strong influence. As and urgently needed history of the first largescale worldwide women's organization and non-denominational evangelical institution, Woman's World / Woman's Empire will be a valuable resource to scholars in the fields of women's studies, religion, history, and alcohol and temperance studies.
Woman's World/Woman's Empire
Author: Ian Tyrrell
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469620804
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Frances Willard founded the Woman's Christian Temperance Union in 1884 to carry the message of women's emancipation throughout the world. Based in the United States, the WCTU rapidly became an international organization, with affiliates in forty-two countries. Ian Tyrrell tells the extraordinary story of how a handful of women sought to change the mores of the world -- not only by abolishing alcohol but also by promoting peace and attacking prostitution, poverty, and male control of democratic political structures. In describing the work of Mary Leavitt, Jessie Ackermann, and other temperance crusaders on the international scene, Tyrrell identifies the tensions generated by conflict between the WCTU's universalist agenda and its own version of an ideologically and religiously based form of cultural imperialism. The union embraced an international and occasionally ecumenical vision that included a critique of Western materialism and imperialism. But, at the same time, its mission inevitably promoted Anglo-American cultural practices and Protestant evangelical beliefs deemed morally superior by the WCTU. Tyrrell also considers, from a comparative perspective, the peculiar links between feminism, social reform, and evangelical religion in Anglo-American culture that made it so difficult for the WCTU to export its vision of a woman-centered mission to other cultures. Even in other Western states, forging links between feminism and religiously based temperance reform was made virtually impossible by religious, class, and cultural barriers. Thus, the WCTU ultimately failed in its efforts to achieve a sober and pure world, although its members significantly shaped the values of those countries in which it excercised strong influence. As and urgently needed history of the first largescale worldwide women's organization and non-denominational evangelical institution, Woman's World / Woman's Empire will be a valuable resource to scholars in the fields of women's studies, religion, history, and alcohol and temperance studies.
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469620804
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Frances Willard founded the Woman's Christian Temperance Union in 1884 to carry the message of women's emancipation throughout the world. Based in the United States, the WCTU rapidly became an international organization, with affiliates in forty-two countries. Ian Tyrrell tells the extraordinary story of how a handful of women sought to change the mores of the world -- not only by abolishing alcohol but also by promoting peace and attacking prostitution, poverty, and male control of democratic political structures. In describing the work of Mary Leavitt, Jessie Ackermann, and other temperance crusaders on the international scene, Tyrrell identifies the tensions generated by conflict between the WCTU's universalist agenda and its own version of an ideologically and religiously based form of cultural imperialism. The union embraced an international and occasionally ecumenical vision that included a critique of Western materialism and imperialism. But, at the same time, its mission inevitably promoted Anglo-American cultural practices and Protestant evangelical beliefs deemed morally superior by the WCTU. Tyrrell also considers, from a comparative perspective, the peculiar links between feminism, social reform, and evangelical religion in Anglo-American culture that made it so difficult for the WCTU to export its vision of a woman-centered mission to other cultures. Even in other Western states, forging links between feminism and religiously based temperance reform was made virtually impossible by religious, class, and cultural barriers. Thus, the WCTU ultimately failed in its efforts to achieve a sober and pure world, although its members significantly shaped the values of those countries in which it excercised strong influence. As and urgently needed history of the first largescale worldwide women's organization and non-denominational evangelical institution, Woman's World / Woman's Empire will be a valuable resource to scholars in the fields of women's studies, religion, history, and alcohol and temperance studies.
Woman and Temperance
Author: Frances Elizabeth Willard
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Category : Temperance
Languages : en
Pages : 678
Book Description
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Category : Temperance
Languages : en
Pages : 678
Book Description
Woman and Temperance
Author: Ruth Birgitta Anderson Bordin
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Reprint. Originally published: Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1981.
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Reprint. Originally published: Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1981.
Woman and Temperance
Author: Frances E. Willard
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Languages : en
Pages : 644
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Languages : en
Pages : 644
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Woman and Temperance
Author: Frances Elizabeth Willard
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Category : Temperance
Languages : en
Pages : 668
Book Description
Bonded Leather binding
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Category : Temperance
Languages : en
Pages : 668
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Bonded Leather binding
The Woman's Temperance Movement ... a Concise History of the Woman's War on Alcohol, Etc
Author: William C. STEEL
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Languages : en
Pages : 88
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Languages : en
Pages : 88
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The Woman's Temperance Movement
Author: William C. Steel
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Category : Woman's Temperance Crusade, 1873-1874
Languages : en
Pages : 106
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Category : Woman's Temperance Crusade, 1873-1874
Languages : en
Pages : 106
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Report of the National Woman's Christian Temperance Union ... Annual Meeting
Author: Woman's Christian Temperance Union
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Category : Temperance
Languages : en
Pages : 724
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Category : Temperance
Languages : en
Pages : 724
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Women Torch-bearers
Author: Elizabeth Putnam Gordon
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Category : Prohibition
Languages : en
Pages : 334
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Category : Prohibition
Languages : en
Pages : 334
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Address Before the Second Biennial Convention of the World's Woman's Christian Temperance Union, and the Twentieth Annual Convention of the National Woman's Christian Temperance Union
Author: Frances Elizabeth Willard
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Category : Prohibition
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Prohibition
Languages : en
Pages : 104
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